Joined: 03 Jan 2014, 23:18Posts: 473Location: In limbo between school and university

Antidisestablishmentarianism all the way - 28 letters long!

Oh, all the hours spent honing my ability to correctly pronounce "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch"! For non-Welsh-speakers, it means "St. Mary's Church in the hollow of the white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the church of St. Tysilio of the red cave".

Now I must get changed for my activity. That is a feature of life at boarding-school. Breaks are short.

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someone:"Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch"! For non-Welsh-speakers, it means "St. Mary's Church in the hollow of the white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the church of St. Tysilio of the red cave".

I presume you all know that this place name was made up precisely so that they could say it was the longest place name in the UK (and possibly the longest place name in Europe, though I haven't checked that one).

I'm with cestina, as I love both the sound and the meaning of serendipity.

Edited once, as I quoted the wrong post!

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Joined: 03 Jan 2014, 23:18Posts: 473Location: In limbo between school and university

Dollop is such a beautiful word.

I got to spend a lesson talking about the CS yesterday. We have to do a qualification in public speaking, and one aspect is a "Literary Recommendation", so I had to convince the other people in my group that the CS was not a series of stupid kids' books and was well worth a read. I did, however, impress the teacher, who looked of an age to have read them but had never heard of them.

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I came across the word 'domatic' when watching the Olympic opening ceremony when it was on back in the summer (by failing to say 'democratic' like in a lot of country names). I *think* I understand what a domatic number is, but I'd rather just enjoy the fact that I came across a maths thing entirely by accident.